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The US plans to blockade Iranian ports, potentially disrupting oil exports and impacting global energy markets. This move comes as tensions between the US and Iran escalate. The blockade could lead to increased oil prices and economic instability.
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The Foundational Metal of War: Aluminum, the Middle East War, and America’s Strategic Vulnerability - Modern War Institute
Resource Competition With China Lay Behind Trump’s Iran War
> The resource wars between China and the United States have accelerated the determination of both sides to escape their dependencies on each other. These tensions force the rest of the world to absorb the disruption of two great powers dismantling the integrated economy they spent fifty years building together. > The cost is paid by the children inhaling radioactive dust around Baotou, by the Cuban families navigating a blackout, by the sailors stranded in the Gulf waiting for great powers to finish their argument. Furthermore, resource wars require authoritarian consolidation at home to manage these social costs. That consolidation is visible in Beijing and Tehran, in Tel Aviv and Caracas, and increasingly in Washington itself. > The Left’s task is not to pick sides in this war but to name it for what it is: a struggle between states for control of the materials that power the next industrial revolution, conducted at the expense of the people who live nearest to those materials and furthest from the decisions about how they are used.
Ukraine Has the Most Important Military Industrial Complex in the Free World—Ex CIA Director Says
> Former CIA Director and retired US Army General David Petraeus declared that Ukraine is rapidly becoming the “most important military-industrial complex in the free world,” according to an interview conducted by the TV Host Daniel Tkiie on April 10.
Ukraine and Germany to Discuss Joint Development of Laser Weapons
Pentagon upgrades its hypersonic weapon test range
> Reagan Test Range occupies one of the most strategically significant pieces of real estate in the entire U.S. military testing enterprise. Located at Kwajalein Atoll in the Marshall Islands in the central Pacific Ocean, the range provides the Department of War with a vast ocean expanse over which long-range ballistic missiles, reentry vehicles, and increasingly hypersonic systems can be tracked from launch to impact. The distance from the continental United States to Kwajalein — roughly 2,500 miles southwest of Hawaii — gives the range the geographic depth needed to observe missiles across the full arc of their flight, something no continental test facility can replicate at scale.
Undeclared War: How Russia is Attacking Europe
> Moreover, from the perspective of Russian military science, the widespread European discourse on ‘hybrid war’ suffers from a lack of doctrinal precision. Western analysts often equate this term with the entire spectrum of subversive activities; however, Russian military thought, particularly the framework formalized by military academics, introduces a strict taxonomy of escalation. > Within this hierarchy, ‘hybrid war’ is already a specific, advanced level of hostile actions (Stage 4), distinct from lower levels of intervention. Information operations, economic coercion, propaganda, and internal political subversion alone do not constitute hybrid war within this doctrine.
Non-State Entities and National Security
Cuba’s doctors were a lifeline for the world. Now the Caribbean is shamefully complicit in the US drive to expel them | Kenneth Mohammed
> On Friday the Cuban foreign minister Bruno Rodríguez accused the US of “extorting” countries by forcing them to cancel decades-old deals with Havana for the supply of doctors. > The tone was set in Donald Trump’s first term. In 2018, 8,300 Cuban doctors left Brazil after the country’s then president-elect, Jair Bolsonaro, closely aligned with Washington, threatened the programme and its payment structure, questioning the qualifications of the Cubans – issues that had never been raised when their services were indispensable. > Since then, the US has pushed countries across the region to terminate these agreements, branding them “forced labour” and even “human trafficking” because the Cuban state retains a share of salaries. Conveniently ignoring that these doctors were trained free of charge by the Cuban government, unlike their heavily indebted counterparts in countries such as the UK where medical graduates have the onerous burden of student debt for decades. > The consequences have been enormous. Guatemala, Honduras, Jamaica, the Bahamas, Antigua and Barbuda, Guyana and St Vincent and the Grenadines have all capitulated. Across the Caribbean and Latin America, programmes, some as old as 50 years, are being dismantled, doctors withdrawn and already fragile systems strained, all under the threat of US visa and diplomatic sanctions. Only St Kitts and Nevis and Trinidad and Tobago have yet to follow. Millions could lose basic healthcare, with Indigenous communities particularly exposed
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